Since the Grateful Dead were kind enough to host their 3-day ‘Fare Thee Well’ Retirement party in Chicago on the same weekend as our (as in mine and Pete’s) 21st Wedding [...]

Here are a few simple, but critical summer to-do’s for all families with college-bound students But first there’s some good news to share: as Peter predicted, after many rounds of [...]

I reported yesterday about how competitive it is to get into college this year, with record low admit rates across the board. Turns out that NBC6 was thinking the same thing. Check out Ari [...]

For most colleges, May 1st is the response deadline (the last day for prospective students to commit themselves and their dollars to a particular school).  It was an eventful and exhausting day [...]

What’s Really Behind UF’s controversial PaCE program… and why that Matters! If you have ever been through the college Admissions process, you’ve endured the excruciating [...]

Back in my day (when a phone actually plugged into a wall), taking the standardized  ‘college entrance exam’  was tough, but deciding which standardized test to take was not.  That [...]

Here’s What Could Happen When What Happened on Your Spring Break… winds up on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Snapchat or Vine! Last couple of years, I’ve become [...]

With the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament tipping off tomorrow, it’s time for my 8th annual, University Generosity Bracketology.  I love talking colleges, and I love the game of [...]

This article (one of my more popular posts) has been republished and updated from a year ago. Tis finally March.  And for those new to my blog, you’ll soon learn that not only am I an [...]

For what I thought (ok, hoped) would be a pretty quiet Monday, I’ve gotten lots of questions today about whether and how the Congress will ‘simplify’ the Free Application for [...]